The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
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The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
I’ll restate the problem with TokenPage: there is a tension between groups such as Yankees fans, Red Sox fans (AKA Yankees haters), and those who just want to maintain accurate knowledge, which bids up the price of a TokenPage orthogonally to the page’s intrinsic value, and may lead to wild swings in the page content when ownership changes hands. T... See more
Ryan Muller • Crypto-collective knowledge management
As Wikipedia approaches 20, there’s been a small proliferation of articles celebrating the site as “a bastion of the Good Internet” and “the last best place on the internet.”
Stephen Gossett • The Internet Should Be More Like Wikipedia
-Managed by locals: wiki users.
Gordon Brander • Wiki as a Commons
It sounded like utopia to me, before I remembered that a key part of our digital infrastructure is run similarly. Wikipedia remains one of the most-visited sites on the web, and it is owned and managed by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. It shows. Wikipedia has never tried to become more than it is. It never pivoted to video or remade itself&nbs
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